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    <h1>
        Cling MediaRenderer
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    <img src="/projects/cling/mediarenderer/images/logo_mediarenderer.png"
         width="250" height="210"
         alt="Cling MediaRenderer Logo"
         style="float: right; margin: 30px;"/>

    <p>
        The Cling MediaRenderer is a Java implementation of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play#UPnP_AV_standards">UPnP MediaRenderer</a>
        device. You can turn any device into a network controllable media player, which can play local files or streams from HTTP (media) servers. It even
        handles multiple streams simultaneously on a single host.
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        Screenshots are available <a href="/projects/cling/mediarenderer/screenshots.html">here</a>.
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        The playback backend is currently based on the <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/">gstreamer</a> project. If you are using
        Linux,  you should be able to install gstreamer as usual or you have it probably already installed.
        On Windows, use <a href="http://www.gstreamer-winbuild.ylatuya.es/doku.php">this installer package</a>. For OS X you can either
        <a href="http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/gnome/gstreamer/Portfile">build it yourself with Macports</a> or you can
        try <a href="http://codeanticode.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/gstreamer-installer-for-macosx/">this installer</a>.
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        Note: Specify the location of your gstreamer install as a system property (e.g. on Linux):
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    <pre>
java -Djna.library.path=/usr/lib -jar cling-mediarenderer.jar</pre>

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        If you want to run the MediaRenderer's display in windowed mode (not fullscreen), start it with the <code>-w</code> argument.
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    <h2>
        Download
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            <a href="http://www.4thline.org/m2/org/fourthline/cling/cling-mediarenderer/2.1.2-SNAPSHOT/cling-mediarenderer-2.1.2-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar">JDK 1.6 desktop application (any OS)</a>
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            <a href="http://www.4thline.org/projects/download/">Cling main distribution (incl. Cling Core library)</a>
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    <p>
        Cling Core is Free Software, distributed under the terms of
        the <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html">GNU Lesser General Public
        License</a> <strong>or at your option</strong> the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0">Common
        Development and Distribution License</a>.
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